On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:15:04PM -0400, Dale Strickler wrote: | Yah, I have give M$ far more than I would have liked to over the | years. The biggest frustration for me was working for a group of 700-1000 | in three different countries be forced into giving up their WordPerfect for | DOS because the parent company said, 'thou shall us Microsoft Office!' The | slow down for a year or more while every one relearned was staggering. | 8< snip >8
Most of the job ads for office workers state a requirement to know Microsoft Word (or Office) or in a few cases, some other word processor program. What I find sad is that they _are_ locking themselves in to a specific program that way. What they _should_ be asking for are "people smart enough to learn something new in just a week". I've used MS Word a lot. I've never used Word Perfect. But I'm confident that it won't take me even an hour to figure out how to use it if I need to write a letter and that's the only thing here. Of course, getting to the point of being able to write sophisticated macros or create uniform templates might take more study than I can do in a day. But the average office worker doesn't do that kind of stuff. I seriously worry about a workforce that takes a year to adapt to a change like using a different modern word processor. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
